HEROES & ZEROES

Whistleblowers: ordinary people turned heroes

Today, 9 December, is International Anti-Corruption Day. The day aims to raise public awareness of corruption and what people can do to fight it. This year’s theme is Zero Corruption – 100% Development, meaning that corruption is a barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, because it diverts funds away from desperately needed facilities and Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

A life well lived

What more can be said about our hero of the week? Former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela, who passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg on Thursday night, surrounded by his family, was a committed fighter for human rights, and for justice and equality for all. Mandela was 95 when he Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

CPI 2013 – South Africa in the African context

Transparency International (TI) has launched its annual corruption perceptions index, and South Africa has not improved noticeably on its score of 43 and ranking of 69 for 2012. Last year the country dropped two places on the sub-Saharan Africa rankings, from seven to nine, and this year it drops another place to 10. The index Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

SA stable in CPI, but results far from comforting

The 2013 global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) compiled by Transparency International reveals that South Africans’ perceptions of the level of corruption have remained stable over the past two years. South Africa is ranked 72 out of 177 countries surveyed and scored 42 out of 100. In the 2012 CPI the country ranked 69 out of 176 countries, with Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

CW in successful R10-billion tender appeal

Corruption Watch continues to make a valuable contribution to the fight against corruption, with its most recent success related to the Constitutional Court case involving Allpay Consolidated Investment Holdings (Allpay) and others v The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and others. The organisation appeared as a friend of the court in September, in a Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

A man of integrity

Our hero this week is former auditor-general Terence Nombembe, who ended his seven-year, non-renewable term on 30 November. Nombembe has led his department with integrity, he's held leaders accountable, and has not minced words on how corruption and wasteful expenditure affects the poor, At a farewell function held early in November in his honour at Parliament, Read more >

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Corruption and the law in South Africa – part three

In parts one and two of our series we focused on international, regional and domestic legislation that assists the country in the fight against corruption. But South African corruption fighters don’t just have clear-cut pieces of legislation on their side. There are a number of institutions and commissions whose specific task is to root out, Read more >

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Good governance is no reason for complacency

​Corruption Watch’s executive director David Lewis delivered the keynote speech at the launch of the JSE’s Socially Responsible Investment Index for 2013.  Launched in 2004, the index is a tool that, according to the JSE, “measures companies’ policies, performance and reporting in relation to the three pillars of the triple bottom line (environmental, economic and Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Corruption and the law in South Africa – part two

In part one we looked briefly at the four main regional and international conventions that inform some of South Africa’s pieces of anti-corruption legislation. In part two we take a closer look at the leading domestic legislation on corruption – the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (12 of 2004) (Precca). Precca was written Read more >